NECA 1/4 scale predator

[Rzeznikk]

Re: 1/4 Scale NECA Review and Thoughts

l HATE this guy. but l do agree with a couple things. l wrote my own review in the neca thread. l only agree that the skulls sucked, soft rubber, and the ropes suck. but it is an easy fix. drill holes in the skull and put a new rope threw, done, fixed. some of the soft armour was kinda cheap, but who cares it does look like metal armour. that's all l agree with him.

he's complaining some of the dreads are fused together in the back. yes they are, but all you need is a razor blade and you can cut the little peice of plastic that holds them together,now you have seperate dreads. all he is complaining about are easy fixes. so he is just trying to bash this figure every chance he gets.

fortnox get this threw your thick skull. you paid $80 for this figure. that's it . if he cost $250-300 then l would agree with you more. this fig is better then the $300 Hot Toys peice, end of story.

Thats what I did. Sooooo easy.

 

[Lord Freezer]

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I mean, come on, the armor is soo flimsy that it will melt in hot weather?

Just ridiculous.

probably live in the equator

To me its not post irritates me, indeed, makes me smile

fortnox get this threw your thick skull. you paid $80 for this figure. that's it . if he cost $250-300 then l would agree with you more. this fig is better then the $300 Hot Toys peice, end of story.

 

[Silasya77]

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Hey! Whudduya know! Paragraphs!

 

[Lord Freezer]

 

[Desamo]

Looks like BBTS has incresed 1/4 Predators prices.I hope I get my Predator before July

 

[RESIN1]

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Bloody hell, I paid $3000 on ebay for the NECA 1/4 Pred, thinking it was the SIDESHOW Maquette! - Still got a bargain though

 

[greygoose]

Phew, this guy ROCKS!

Hopefully the daylight will be good enough tomorrow for me to take some pics and review him. But let me tell you guys, this is probably Figure of the Year for me. It's astonishing how we've never gotten something like this before, I mean it's the 1987 character we all know and love -- blown up. Opening these things, I felt like a little kid at Christmas, back when all the presents seemed so big because I was so small. Only now, the presents actually ARE big.

Today was totally amazing. After I was through with them, the Tigard TRU now just has the unmasked ones from that second case.

Congrats Blade! Looking forward to pics and a video.

Have fun.

 

[greygoose]

As time passes I'm starting to get itchy for a second set of these.

When I jumped ship from RIDICULOUSLY slow Amoktime I had three (yes three) sets on pre-order but when I ordered from CSC I only ordered one set.

I may have to do this maybe next week, I just want to have a set to keep in their boxes.

You planning on building a NECA Predator army.

 

[Master Wayne]

I might check my local TRU today. The wait for BBTS is starting to hurt.

 

[cultpredator]

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I really dont understand people bashing this piece, unless they are just negative in general and have to see the bad in everything., thats my opinion for the price of this piece Neca could not have done any better..well done Neca This thread should have been closed a long time ago.

 

[greygoose]

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It's hard not to be positive about this figure.

 

[jonny88]

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close this thread and ban fortnox. all he does is repeat himself.

 

[darthman]

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Having seen the OP's previous thread contributions, I'm surprised you even bought it in the first place?

 

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

I gotta stop opening up this thread.

 

[greygoose]

I gotta stop opening up this thread.

When you getting yours?

 

[tankman]

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Here are my quick thoughts about necas new so called 19" 1/4 scale Predator 1 figurines. The first thing I noticed when I took them out of their boxes is that they use A LOT of really soft and flexible pvc rubber for the majority of the armor etc. The bone trophies are all molded in one piece and made of the same soft rubber. They are molded as a single piece and all linked together by 1mm flimsy pvc rubber that feels very weak and tears very easily with light force. They then have used black cord at the ends of the bones so they can be worn but they are only secured to the ends of the bones by a drop of glue that just pulls away from the paint when you lightly touch it. Same deal for the necklace its just a single piece of soft pvc with a bit of sting glued at either end.


The spine trophy is also cast as a single piece of soft pvc and like the other bone trophies is linked between its sections by the same super thin super soft stretchy pvc and cheap black sting embedded in it at either end so it will be a hassle replacing that when they pull out and they will. All the armor and parts except for the lover calf armor minus the knee guards is made form soft floppy pvc. Why not have them individually strung on the same piece of cord? It would have been so easy to do and looked so much better. As they are and because they are made of soft pvc you would have to burn a hole through them with a hot nail or something to restring them.


The canon mount and canon are made from slightly harder pvc but are still slightly flexible to the touch and feel cheap but look good but the cannon detaches easily from its mounts. I soon noticed that there are no straps connecting the left and right shoulder armor pieces to the chest as there should be. They just look like they are floating around and are glued directly to the arms. One of the hoses on the front of my cannon armor has already pulled away but should be easy to fix with a drop of glue but that shouldnt happen right out of the box. The mask hoses arent made of electrical wire insulator tubing as you would expect but are bits of stretchy jelly like pvc that feel like they would rip if you tried to lightly pull them. They would however be fairly easy to replace.


The dreadlocks are harder than the pvc they used for the armor and hoses but they some are joined together in clumps rather than being individual dreads like you would expect. The ones that are clumped together in clusters were molded together in groups and cant be separated but there are dreads that can be arranged individually. The small spines on the sides of the face of the unmasked versions are also molded in solid clusters. For some strange reason the quills arent present on the masked version.


So with all the soft pvc rubber it would be smart to keep the predators exposed from hot sunny days and heat or you will end up most likely end up with permanently deformed melted parts!


Hardly any forward or backwards range of movement what so ever in the ankles so you cant do anything other than standing straight poses with them they may as well not be there but they can swivel 360. The arms fall out of the sockets easily and are very lose from the shoulder and dont hold poses well. I found that my masked version had slightly tighter joints but still lose. The arms have a very limited range and cant bend half the range of motion you would expect from the elbow. The hands basically have no movement forward or backward from the wrist but can rotate 360.


There is no forward or backward or side to side bending articulation in the torso and only a little bit of left right rotation but that will cause the netting to tear so be very careful when doing so. The netting can not be removed without pulling the whole figure apart and you will probably tear the very soft rubber back armor as its very securely glued over the netting and to the body. In general the netting feels very flimsy and will tear very easily if you tried pulling it off. My open mouth version has a few tears in the chest area right out the box. So much for replacing the netting or with something more accurate! It could be done but would require some serious skill to do so with all the work and potential damage that would be involved just removing the armor parts. Do not try it if you arent very skilled at such work.


Overall the netting is very thin and flimsy and tares very easily it is nowhere near as strong as the various grades of fine fruit bag type netting found commonly at supermarkets etc. I have only posed mine a few times very carefully and tried out the articulation when I got them and already some of the netting has torn where its tucked between the torso and waist. Same deal for the netting around the arm pits.The parts rub against the netting and it breaks where they make contact. You have to be very careful when rotating the thigh joints because the netting will also tear easily if you dont think about what youre doing.


The mask is made from the soft pvc that the armor is made of but it gets thicker towards the front so only the back half feels soft and flexible. The cap between the mask is large and its not any easy fix because you risk tearing it when you try to break the bond with the lower half of the head. Even if you could modify it the mould was made wrong so you are going to reduce the width of the eyes so you would be better of not trying to remove the mask and just sculpt in the gap and repaint everything. You could fix the ugly seam that runs along the top of the helmet while you are at it.


The paint is decent for neca however there are many areas that could have used more care and cleaner applications. Its only marginally better than other neca paint work you might be used to. The eyes look good and my three examples didnt have any issues but they lack fierceness to them. There really isnt any rage to the sculpt at all. The open mouth version doesnt look as though it roaring and the closed mouth looks like it has a vey goofy looking face when viewed head on. The overal appearance of them overal lacks any real feeling of forcity that may be partialy because of the very limitited poses you can acheive with them.


Much of the hype over these toys has been coming from the childrens corner but adults will soon appreciate the shortcoming and cheapness of them. Sad because if neca spend a few dollars more per piece at the factory we would have had something that would have been excellent. if they had of spend $20-$30 extra each at the factory level and given us new joints that do more than cowboy stances and higher quality everything then we would have had pieces that would have been truly remarkable.


Am I disappointed this didnt happen? Yes. Am I surprised? No. The sad thing is that neca was apparently listening to its fans on twitter etc but they obviously chose to ignore and stick with their tried and true method of maximizing their profits and going basic on quality. these will probably be the last pieces I buy from neca I have a has a lot of heartbreak with neca over the years with broken and poorly made pieces right out of their blister packs and boxes and have heard every excuse under the sun from them about why that happens but nothing really changes.

You know what is beyond FUNNY? You got all three. Oh yeah money time Cha ching.

 

[Lord Freezer]

 

[greygoose]

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You know what is beyond FUNNY? You got all three. Oh yeah money time Cha ching.

He's an idiot.

 

[Lord Freezer]

Re: 1/4 Scale NECA Review and Thoughts

You know what is beyond FUNNY? You got all three. Oh yeah money time Cha ching.

 

[tankman]

Re: 1/4 Scale NECA Review and Thoughts

He is freaking funny right? What's even more funny is if we did P2 he'd get all three of them?